LONDON—Brimming with British pride after Friday night’s opening ceremony, guests sashayed through the labyrinth of rooms at the launch of Omega House in London. Burberry face and actor de jour Eddie Redmayne looked swish, in Burberry, naturally, with his equally handsome brother Tom in tow. “I’m color blind, so I rely on a lot of lovely people around me to make me look nice,” Redmayne told VF Daily of his style. And of his career? “I’ve just finished Les Mis and I’m taking a couple weeks off, and then in September I’m hoping someone will give me a job.” We can think of a few odd gigs for the impossibly suave actor—feeding us grapes by the pool, for example.

Meanwhile, with Omega serving as the official timekeeper of the 2012 Olympics, its pop-up venue in London’s Soho is open only for the duration of the Games. The first sight you’ll see upon entering is the spinning face of Martha Freud in the form of the specially designed porcelain club clock. Each room of the pop-up lifts its name from an Omega collection—the Ladymatic Lounge, the Speedmaster Bar, the Hour Vision Atelier, among others—and the pièce de résistance is an outdoor terrace equipped with a video screen streaming all the Olympic action.

All of London, it seemed, was out to celebrate the Olympic spirit at the venue’s opening—the models, actors, athletes, and socialites twirled away as Jarvis Cocker D.J.’d, and there was never an empty hand in sight with the conveyer belt of Johnnie Walker cocktails and delectable canapés. Nicole Kidman looked every bit the A-lister in navy Alaïa on the arm of her husband, Keith Urban, and we chatted with other attendees about the Games: “I love my sport. It’s just a very, very exciting thing to have the Olympics on your doorstep,” model and TV presenter Jodie Kidd told us. “To have the elite of the sporting world right up the road performing—London has got a real buzz.” Kidd told us of her plans to attend the show-jumping competitions—no surprises there, as Kidd’s father, John Edward Aitken Kidd, was a champion show jumper.

Less inclined to participate in such a sport would beGame of Thrones actor Kit Harington, who hobbled on crutches through the crowd and stayed put at an outside table. When asked about the injury, he replied coyly, “It’s a no-comment question, I’m afraid.” Epic battle to nab a $30,000 G.O.T.**-themed throne, Still, Harington could reveal his take on the opening ceremony: “I loved it. I love Danny Boyle. I think he’s a genius, and I think he perfectly balanced what is British and what is the Olympics. It was showing the world what’s British. I’m not a very patriotic person, but I got very emotional.” perhaps?!

As for Her Majesty’s performance? “You know what—it’s not easy to deliver one line if you’re not an actor,” he told us. “She delivered it perfectly.” Hear, hear!